The Crusades
THE Crusades have been a popular theme for historians recently. There were Grousset's three volumes and then three from Steven Runciman, and now here is the first volume of a......
Understanding Argentina
HERE, at last, is a book that disperses the fog of misundecstanding that surrounds con- temporary Argentina. George Pendle, the author of Argentina (Royal Institute of Inter-......
Some Of The Evidence
EVEN the most devoted supporters of Mau Mau will not derive much useful aid from Law and Disorder : Scenes of Life in Kenya, by Peter Evans (Seeker and Warburg, 18s.). It is a......
New Novels The Popular Belief That 'beautifully Written'...
satirical' would be bracketed second to 'poses the dilemma of our time' in any list of effective purchase-preventin g ta g s has nev e r been undermined. It does seem that,......